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Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Buying Consumers Development Get Give Growth Need Out People Produces Products Quickly Seduced Them Things Times Tough Unsustainable Until Up

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Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Centuries Change Course Cultures Enormous Environmental Face Gains Great Guarantee Happens Human Institutions Land Lead Like No Guarantee Other Require Revolution Revolutions Sacrifices Take Too Will

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There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Burn Deep Degrading Drain Drill Dump Earth Exception Fish Flood Hardly Life Log No Life Ocean Pave People Place Plow Possible Spill Spray Where Zone

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Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Bigger Earth Energy Few Flows Good Humankind Impact Making Material Most Much Our Own Places Planet Planetary Powers Relative Scale Sensitive Than

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: March 14th, 1941

Died: February 20th, 2001

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